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"Are you trying to say that FDR lined up the ships in a certain fashion to make it easier for the Japanese to hit them?"

Of course not. Merely pointing out that Pearl Harbor is not a cut and dry issue. To detail the oddities surrounding that fateful day would take a text book to adequately address. If FDR did in fact allow Pearl Harbor to happen to motivate us into the war then I would call that a criminal act of the worst kind. However you stand on the subject at best we have gross incompetence on the part of the administation and the military command. In the end we won the war that needed winning and Pearl Harbor as well as some of our biggest losses (of life) during the war stand in stark contrast to how far we've gone in the other direction. Our national fortitude and resolve seem to crumble in the face of a media onslaught with casualties that pale next to past wars. In today's world FDR would have been hamstrung if not worse. As for Pearl Harbor I don't think he ever paid a price and I think history has given him a pass as well.

None of your points relate to what that allegedly intelligent caller Dave said. Dave did not say there was "gross incompetence on the part of the administation and the military command" -- that statement is blatantly obvious. Dave said that the ships were lined up to make them easier to attack. The fact that Dave would make such a ridiculous claim -- to "prove" we have been "lied to" for 200 years -- when FDR is a liberal hero shows just how far gone some of our fellow citizens are.

Callers and shows and stations like that aren't even Left Wing -- Left is a direction and these idiots aren't even that organized. They aren't intelligent -- they are anti-intelligent.